Hydroxy-group directivity in the nitroso ene reaction: Diastereo- and regioselective amination of chiral allylic alcohols
Hydroxy-group directivity in the nitroso ene reaction: Diastereo- and regioselective amination of chiral allylic alcohols
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DOI:
10.1021/ja001752w
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发表时间:
2000-10-11
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15
通讯作者:
Bottke, N
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作者:
Adam, W;Bottke, N
The ene reactions of singlet oxygen1 and triazolinedione (TAD) 2 with 1, 3-allylically strained chiral substrates lead to threo-configured ene products in high diastereoselectivities, a consequence of the hydroxy-group directivity. 3 If such stereocontrol were to operate for the isoelectronic nitroso enophile, an attractive and convenient synthetic methodology would be available for the diastereoselective amination of chiral allylic alcohols; however, the ene reaction of such olefins appears not to have been examined so far. 4 This is presumably due to the undesirable side reactions known for the nitroso ene reaction, in which the resulting hydroxylamine ene products are in situ further oxidized. 5 To circumvent these disadvantages, we recently established a new nitroso enophile, namely p-nitronitrosobenzene (ArNO), which affords persistent ene products. 6 Indeed, presently we demonstrate that for this nitrosoarene enophile the hydroxy-group directivity operates effectively when 1, 3-allylically strained chiral allylic alcohols are employed. The desired aminated ene products have been obtained in high diastereoselectivity and regioselectivity, as well as in good yield.The product studies of the ene reactions were conducted on the NMR scale, all unknown products were isolated from preparative runs and fully characterized. The product ratios and diastereoselectivities were determined directly on the crude reaction mixture from the peak areas of characteristic signals in the 1H NMR spectra. The results are summarized in Table 1. The allylic acohol 1a was converted with an equimolar amount of the nitrosoarene in the nonpolar d-chloroform with high (92: 8) diastereoselectivity (entry 1) predominantly to the threo-configured hydroxylamine (2S*, 3S*)-2a. In d4-methanol (69: 31, entry 3) and d6-DMSO (66: 34, entry 4) significantly lower diastereoselectivities were observed. Evidently, hydrogen bonding between the 1, 3-allylically strained substrate and the nitrosoarene enophile is responsible for the pronounced threo selectivity. In the protic methanol and the polar DMSO, the substrate/enophile hydrogen bonding is suppressed through competitive intermolecular interactions with the solvent. Also chemical masking of the hydroxy group either by acetylation as in the ester 1b or methylation as in the ether 1c corraborate that substrate/enophile hydrogen bonding is at work in expressing the high threo diastereoselectivity for the allylic